Hostaway is the fastest-growing global SaaS start-up in the vacation rentals industry. Our products provide the best and most cost-effective solutions for property managers and vacation rental owners. Our major partners include Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, and several other leaders in the industry.

As the leading property management and vacation rentals platform (PMS and Channel Manager), our mission is simple: To build a cutting-edge product by teaming up with exceptional thinkers and passionate go-getters. We strive to foster the best environment for your team members, to cultivate growth and inspiration and create an exceptional experience on our team.

Since launching in 2015, Hostaway has been rapidly expanding our teams in Toronto and Barcelona. As a fast-paced startup, our goal is to create a culture of self-starting individuals with a tenacity for learning and a sense of urgency born out of passion for growth.

Work with us. Grow with us. Win with us.

Our Toronto team is looking for highly motivated and seasoned Senior Business Developement Representatives to join our rapidly-expanding Sales team. As a Senior BDR at Hostaway, besides your day to day sales tasks, you will play a critical role in building out our Sales team and setting up a foundation that will take our Sales team to its greatest potential. 

You will be working together with your Senior BDR colleagues in our Barcelona and Melbourne offices, along with the Sales Team Lead. Throughout the entire sales lifecycle, you are the local point of contact for our local SDRs, BDRs, OBRs as well as other teams. You have the experience to lead a local sales team, motivate them, make decisions, provide trainings, follow and execute plans set out by your Team Lead.

As the Senior BDR you are used to selling a SaaS-based software product in a complex digital STR market.

By joining Hostaway you join a global team of young, entrepreneurial and ambitious individuals that work day in day out to get the best out of our product for clients, while using feedback from the relationships you build in order to improve our products, all the while focussing on self-development and your personal career path 

What the role is all about:

• Qualifying inbound prospects' needs, closing deals and estimating ROI based on improvement requests by the prospects/clients

• Generate, retain, and engage a high volume of new outbound leads

• Develop subject matter expertise in the industry to best support and coach our sales team, customers and prospects during their first weeks of onboarding

• Building key relationships and collaborating with Account Managers and Customer Support Specialists on their respective territory accounts to create smooth handoffs of clients while continuously generating new pipelines through account research, strategy, and outreach

• Collect relevant feedback from prospects, prioritize these opportunities, build detailed product improvement plans with the local sales team and mobilize the appropriate internal resources ROI based to help accelerate our sales cycles

• Manage and appropriately forecast your local team sales pipeline using Hubspot, Google Docs and various other tools

• Creative out of the box, thinking about new processes, product improvements needed, build projects for them to optimize our sales cycle based on ROI estimates

• You know which data is important in order to take your work to its fullest potential and you have the firm skills to convert, maintain and deliver KPI reports

What we're looking for:

• SaaS-experienced tech savants who understand and love complex products
• Well-informed and up-to-date individuals who know the ins and outs of industry trends
• Sales/Service-oriented people with exceptional communication skills
• Way-outside-the-box thinkers
• Highly independent doers who thrive off building close team relationships but know how to brainstorm, create, and execute on their own 
• Ambition - you've set big goals and high expectations for yourself but you're not afraid to make mistakes along the way
• Creativity - hobbies, learning, and constant self-development are at the core of our team values

Canditate profile/experience:

• 3-5+ years of professional experience within Sales, Product, and/or CS teams
• Experience managing a team of 20+ team members
• You've built teams and processes either from scratch or torn down existing ones to create something new
• Strong experience in lead generation and SaaS sales
• You crunch numbers in your sleep. KPI reports, excel, and GA are your cornerstones and data drives your entire workflow
• Experience with B2B partnership negotiations
• Exceptional communication skills (written, oral, verbal 
• Experience as host, property owner hosting on Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, HomeAway and many other OTAs or working experience as host sales agent for a OTA is required.
• Experience in selling SaaS software based subscriptions preferred

Who we are:

• A global SaaS team with a culture that has Scandinavian values at heart, valuing openness, freedom, and success of the individual
• Super fast-paced team currently doubling & tripling our teams, seeking out the leaders of tomorrow 
• A ‘family’ of creatives, big thinkers, and ambitious humans 
• Diverse and open-minded. We don’t care much for labels nor traditional thinking

We want to offer you:

• A great working space located in a fantastic space, downtown Toronto
• Team lunches, outings, fitness classes, and more
• Endless growth and career opportunities 
• Annual company trips to exciting locations 
• Support for potential future relocation to any one of our offices 
• Handpicked team of the best people

If this sounds like a team you’d like to be a part of right away - then we can’t wait to hear about you!

Let’s get in touch and discuss your next, big career move.